Groom's Sweet Dance With Mom With ALS Will Bring You to Tears

It's the most beautiful wedding moment you'll ever see.

Just a year before tying the knot with his wife Kristeena, Luke Rheault found out that his mom Rebekah was diagnosed with ALS. At the wedding, he had planned to do a special dance with his mom, but said something felt off the second the music started playing. So, in a beautifully sweet gesture, he got down on his knees to be closer to his mom in her wheelchair and made everything perfectly right.

"I remember feeling uncomfortable standing above her for the first few moments of the dance — it just didn't feel normal, and that's when I got down on my knees and danced with her," Luke told The Huffington Post. "I had no idea of the impact it had on everyone until they had told me."

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He said all he was concerned about in that moment was making her feel special, so he tried to make the best of it and continue smiling with her, as he spun her around.

"I don't recall at any point in the wedding thinking that these might be my last few moments with my mother," he added. "So I did what felt right at the time, and I'm really glad I did because it's a memory that has well-served its purpose."

And surprisingly enough, it wasn't until Wednesday that he watched the dance in its entirety for the first time. Rebekah sadly died in September 2009 — less than a year after she and her son shared their dance at his wedding in November 2008, and seeing it years later has been emotional for Luke.

"I found myself reliving all that this woman did for me — everything that she embodied as a mother and everything she taught me to be," he said. "I tell it to everyone: 'It's a void that can never be filled.'"

But thanks to his wife, who uploaded the video in March of this year, their heartbreakingly beautiful memories live on. Grab some tissues and see for yourself.